Story 1: Hillary Clinton Calls American People “basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. ” and “other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change” — Videos —

Hillary Clinton Calls Trump Supporters “Basket Of Deplorables”

Transcript: Clinton’s full remarks as she called half of Trump supporters ‘deplorables’

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is under fire and has expressed regret for part of a statement she made about GOP nominee Donald Trump’s supporters during a fundraiser on Friday.

Here is a full transcript of her remarks in New York City, with the controversial portion in bold:

“Thank you all so much. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. It’s sort of like the seventh inning stretch. Thank you all. You know, I’ve been saying at events like this lately, I am all that stands between you and the apocalypse. Tonight, I’m all that stands between a much better outcome! I want to thank Laverne [Cox] for being here at her first political event. Her endorsement, her strong words, her passion, her example, her advocacy on behalf of the transgender community, particularly transgender women of color, is just so extraordinary, and I love the way she wove in so many of the issues that are up for grabs in this election.”

“I think we know what we’re up against. We do, don’t we? Donald Trump has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn marriage equality, and if you have read about the ones he says he’s likely to support, he’s not kidding. In fact, if you look at his running mate, his running mate signed a law that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against LGBT Americans. And there’s so much more than I find deplorable in his campaign: the way that he cozies up to white supremacists, makes racist attacks, calls women pigs, mocks people with disabilities — you can’t make this up. He wants to round up and deport 16 million people, calls our military a disaster. And every day he says something else which I find so personally offensive, but also dangerous. You know, the idea of our country is so rooted in continuing progress that we make together. Our campaign slogan is not just words. We really do believe that we are stronger together. We really do believe that showing respect and appreciation for one another lifts us all up.”

“And it’s a special commitment that I feel to continuing to fight alongside the LGBT community. Because this is one of the continuing struggles. We’re filled in this great hall in Cipriani tonight with successful people, raising your glow sticks, thank you so much for contributing a little bit more to get the campaign over the finish line. But somewhere right now in this city is a kid has been kicked out of his house. Somewhere not far from here, maybe a suburb or across state lines, is a young girl who is just not sure what her future holds because she just doesn’t feel like she’s herself and no one understands that. Some kid getting off the bus at the Port Authority and somebody’s waiting to take advantage of that scared but brave kid looking for a different life and a future that actually belongs to him or her.”

“We still have a lot of work to do. And if you think of the work we have to do in our own country, it pales in comparison to the work we have to do around the world. And I’m grateful that in this room are so many people who have broken down barriers, stood up to discrimination and bigotry, fought for the rights of everyone. I was in North Carolina just yesterday and I told them, it’s not only that discrimination is wrong. It’s bad for business. That state which was led down a pathway of discrimination is seeing the results — losing jobs, losing the NBA all-star game. Who wants to be associated with a governor and a legislature who set out to hurt the people they’re supported to be representing and protecting?”

“In too many places still, LGBT Americans are singled out for harassment and violence. You can get married on Saturday, post your pictures on Sunday and get fired on Monday. That’s why we’ve got to continue the forward march of progress.”

“And we cannot do it alone. I cannot do it alone. I’m not like Donald Trump, who says, ‘I alone can fix it.’ I’ve never quite figured out what it is he alone can fix. But that’s not what you’ll hear from me. I think we have to do this together. So, together we’re gonna pass the Equality Act to guarantee full equality. We’re going to put comprehensive quality affordable healthcare within reach for more people, including for mental health and addiction. We’re going to take on youth homelessness, and as my wonderful, extraordinary, great daughter said, we are going to end the cruel and dangerous practice of conversion therapy. We’re going to keep working toward an AIDS-free generation, a goal that I set as secretary of State, and with your help we’re going to pass comprehensive gun laws….”

“I know there are only 60 days left to make our case — and don’t get complacent, don’t see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, well, he’s done this time. We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”

“But the other basket — and I know this because I see friends from all over America here — I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that other basket of people are people who feel that the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they’re just desperate for change. It doesn’t really even matter where it comes from. They don’t buy everything he says, but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won’t wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they’re in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.”

“And what I hope is that in addition to your extraordinary generosity, you will go to our website, hillaryclinton.com, or text to join at 47246 to see how else you can get involved.”

“And I want to echo what Chelsea said. We are trying to register 3 million more voters and get those voters to commit to vote. We will win if people turn out to vote. There is no doubt in my mind that we will win. But we can’t take anyone or any place for granted. And therefore I am asking you to volunteer for a phone bank, for a canvass — at the very least if you know anybody who’s even thinking about voting for Trump, stage an intervention! That may be one conversion therapy I endorse. Just remember: Friends don’t let friends vote for Trump.”

“So we’re going to have a great night tonight because we are so blessed. You know, we all love this woman either from afar or luckily enough up close — and for my family, it’s been up close. We know she’s the great talent of our time. We know that remarkably she’s had a No. 1 album in each of the last six decades. We know that. But we also feel and see her heart and her passion. And she’s, of course, been a great ally and supporter of the LGBT community — but of progressive causes and candidates, she’s been on the front lines repeatedly, bravely, never giving up or giving in to all of the incoming criticism that any of us who stick our necks out often attract. So we’re in for a great treat tonight. I could not be happier, more grateful, or excited, than to introduce a woman of such extraordinary presence, that really just her first name — spelled correctly — is more than enough. Please welcome, Barbra Streisand!”

Republicans went on the attack Saturday after Hillary Clinton, during remarks at a fundraiser late Friday night, said that “you could put half of [Donald] Trump‘s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,” which she referred to as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it.”

The dueling statements increased the focus on racial and ethnic tension that already has dominated the 2016 campaign, often to Trump’s detriment. This time, however, it was Republicans who thought their opponent had wandered into politically damaging territory.

Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton on Monday of treating Republican voters like ‘subjects,’ mocking them with ‘hatred and derision,’ in his first direct challenge to her since her widely reported physical collapse on Sunday.

Clinton said during a fundraiser and a TV interview last week that ‘half’ of Trumps supporters belong in ‘baskets of deplorables’ – a line she later walked back by inches by saying she shouldn’t have said ‘half.’

‘If Hillary Clinton will not retract her comments in full, I don’t see how she can credibly campaign any further,’ he charged, saying she had ‘bullied’ voters who want government reform that only he can provide.

He said he was ‘deeply shocked and alarmed this Friday to hear my opponent attack, slander, smear and demean these wonderful, amazing people who are supporting our campaign. by the millions.’

‘These were not offhand comments from Hillary Clinton. These were not stray remarks in an interview, or an accidental choice of words. These were lengthy, planned, and prepared remarks,’ he claimed.

‘It was perhaps the most explicit attack on the American voter ever spoken by a major-party presidential nominee.’

Clinton ‘divides people into “baskets”,’ Trump blasted, ‘as though they were objects, not human beings.’

‘Hillary Clinton spoke with hatred and derision for the people who make this country run,’ Trump said.

‘Nobody’s heard anything like this’ before, he said, emphasizing that her comments ‘viciously demonized’ her detractors.

Trump did not reference Clinton’s health in any way, hours after wishing her well in a call-in appearance on ‘Fox and Friends.’

But Clinton, he said, ‘revealed her true thoughts’ last week and ‘looks down on the hard-working citizens of our country as subjects’ for her to rule.

Clinton’s attack on voters ‘disqualifies her from public service,’ Trump said. ‘You cannot run for president if you have such contempt in your heart for the American voter. And she does. You can’t lead this nation if you have such a low opinion of its citizens.’

Trump resumed his regular calendar on Monday after keeping his powder dry and refraining from campaigning on 9/11.

The Republican nominee addressed the annual convention of the National Guard Association of the United States.

‘I’ve met more generals than I’ve ever seen in my life. I like them and they like me,’ he said of his campaign stop after the gathered military contingent of thousands gave him a war-whoop welcome.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was invited to appear before the 45,000-member group, but her campaign reportedly declined.

Trump said 10,000 National Guard members are ‘doing an unbelievable job’ overseas in current deployments, and 780,000 have served in war zones since the 9/11 attacks.

‘Whether you vote for me or somebody else, I will be your greatest champion,’ he said, promising to provide supplies and ‘modern, state-of-the-art’ equipment to keep the ‘depleted’ Guard and other branches of the U.S. military battle-ready.

‘I think [that] will happen, and we’ll soon find out,’ he said of his chances of winning in November.

About 300 Trump backers chanted slogans and drew car honks from supporters along the length of a city block while 150 anti-Trump demonstrators gathered in a public park across the street yelling ‘Deport Trump!’

The two opposing forces were separated by Baltimore Police and a flow of traffic.

The pro-Trump show of force was organized by the Maryland Republican Party, a political apparatus that’s usually dormant in Democrat-heavy Baltimore but is seeing a resurgence along with Trump’s unconventional outreach to working-class voters.

Trump made waves last week by pledging to engage in a significant military buildup and saying that the Obama administration has reduced America’s military generals ‘to rubble.’

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Mother Nature once again graced the city with gorgeous weather for the 9/11 memorial ceremonies — yet Hillary Clinton was somehow overcome by the mild, low-80s temperatures, and left early in obvious distress.

Clinton’s health is no longer a background issue in the presidential race.

The footage of her entry to her ride out is especially troubling: She’s leaning oddly backward as she waits, and plainly almost collapses as she moves toward the vehicle; a mob of aides then conveys her inside.

Also telling is that her staff avoided alerting the press that travels with her — and were left to catch up after noticing her missing. Clinton’s brief walkabout some 90 minutes later, after she’d rested in daughter Chelsea’s apartment, settles nothing. Nor does word late Sunday that she has pneumonia.

We hadn’t made much of Clinton’s long coughing fit last week, but that now seems more disturbing, too. Maybe her repeated memory failures when the FBI interviewed her over her email abuses were actually real, rather than dodges of questions she didn’t dare answer truthfully.

Even her refusal to hold a single real press conference for more than nine months suddenly looks different: Is she dodging the press to avoid questions about all her endless scandals, or does she fear something else?

Behind it all is the concussion she suffered in late 2012, which led to a blood clot in her head — an illness that prevented her from doing more than token work in her final months at State, and also (she said) left her temporarily unable to testify before Congress on the Benghazi disaster. Her husband later said her recovery took a full six months.

At 68, Clinton is two years younger than her opponent, Donald Trump — but he’s had nothing like any of these episodes, despite more than a year of nonstop travel and public appearances. She’s now got a whole new host of questions to answer — and so do her doctors